The Ashanti Regional Minister, John Alexander Ackon says "possible conclusions reached experts" regarding the discovery of two bombs close to the residence of the Deputy Regional Minister, Andy Osei Okrah point to the fact that "the first could have been ignited to explode and the second one to follow to create multiple explosions".
According to him, per experts' deductions "if the motive was to create higher number of injuries/casualties/damages", then the perpetrators would "ignite the detonator to explode the dynamite when people come around using remote control."
The Regional Minister, who urged Ghanaians especially residents of Kumasi to remain calm, told Kwami Sefa Kayi in an interview Thursday, that the explosives included “one timer device, one remote control, two explosive boosters, two safety fuses, two detonators and two dynamites”.
Fear gripped residents of Danyame, a suburb in Kumasi, in the evening of Monday, when the powerful explosives were allegedly thrown into the residence of the Deputy Regional Minister.
At about 7:00pm on Monday, some of the people living close to Andy Osei Okrah's residence were said to have run out of their homes on hearing “the planting of a grenade” in the house.
The deputy Minister’s official bungalow in the Ashanti Regional capital, is close to the National Security Data Centre in the region.
A statement signed by the regional Minister also revealed that “a third cylinder was taken away on the motor bike according to the Police guard.”
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mahama and his murderers association party who killed Attah Mills. we know you dont mind killing people just to be called honourable and excellency, evil souls, you can plant grenade we will come out and vote against that killer inhuman president who has to sleep with alot of women to keep his spiritual powers active but pretend to be christian by day. God forbid that Mahama will be president again I would even prefer Akua Donkor to that bad omen
We are so much ready for NPP and their machinations we shall meet them squrely Nana cant be President by the grace of Almighty God. Why because he is evil and diabolic
ONE WONDERS WHY THERE ISN'T EVEN ONE DECENT PERSON IN THE NDC PARTY. THEY ARE LIARS,DECEITFUL AND SHAMELESSLY UNWISE TO THINK THAT GHANAIANS WILL FALL FOR THEIR INFANTILE ANTICS. A WHOLE REGIONAL MINISTER CAN COME OUT WITH SUCH STORY AND EXPECT SERIOUS THINKING PERSONS TO BELIEVE IT. THERE ARE BLATANT INCONSISTENCIES IN HIS STATEMENT THAT ONLY PEOPLE OF HIS ILK WILL TAKE HIM SERIOUS. THAT OLD PRIMITIVE TACTICS EMPLOYED BY THE RAWLINGS ERA WILL NOT WORK THIS TIME SO THINK OF SOMETHING DIFFERENT. S-H-A-M-E L-E-SS BUNCH OF......
i live in a country where bombs explodes often. but anytime it happens, expects are able to tell the type of bomb and the source of the bomb. i hope this is not one of the propaganda tools for votes.
U THINK WE ARE ***barred word***.U THINK WE ARE ***barred word***...WE WILL COME OUT IN OUR NUMBERRS AND VOTE U OUT IN KUMASI EVEN IF U PLANT BOMBS ALL OVER US.....
I have gone through the letter written by the Ashanti Regional Minister and I find it very interesting. It is diabolic to say the least. As to how adults, so-called honourables, who are supposed to lead this country wisely and ensure that all citizens are safe, misbehave in this manner beats my imagination. I would like to refute some assertions made by the regional minister and expose his diabolic ideas and that of his party in their bid to make it seem as if someone is after the life of the deputy minister. If anyone wanted to kill the deputy minister, I'm not sure planting of explosves would be the way to go. People see him everyday. He walks around, plays around and so if he is a target, it wouldn't be difficult at all to get at him in the simplest way. I live very close to the area where the so-called explosive device was supposedly planted (or left for fear of questioning by the police) and I can say on authority that it was no where near the deputy minister's residence. It is a big lie. The building being described as the National Security Communication Building is actually for Afriwave, owned by Omane Boamah, the minister for communications and is about 400 meters away from the deputy minister's residence. It also not true that when the so-called explosive device was seen, the deputy minister was at home. In fact according to Erastus who reported on Luv FM on Tuesday, Senior Okrah was in Accra on official duty. So why would the regional minister want to tell us those lies? You want to win sympathy for votes. Kumasi residents have outgrown these schemings. It was employed by the ndc in 2000, but it didn't work. You cannot intimidate us, or create fear and panic to win elections in this region. Tell Dr. Samuel Sarpong that Nhyiaeso Constituency is not falling for ndc, so he should stop all those intimidating tactics.
Why this rush in conclusion?I hope this wouldn't be turned on the opposition...VOTE NANA/BAWUNIA